Iran's top diplomat speaks with Pakistani officials about ceasefire

FM Araghchi's Islamabad visit — with a US logistics/security team reportedly already there — is Pakistan's first public mediator role in the Iran war. Lead with the location, not the ministers: the talks are happening in Islamabad because neither Washington nor Tehran will host the other. The reader should see Pakistan being slotted into a role previously played by Qatar or Oman — the mechanism is a Muslim-world middle power converting nuclear-deterrent credibility into diplomatic leverage at the Hormuz theater.